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increment function: how can i start not from 1? - rickopants - 08-02-2020
Hi, i was wondering how can i use the --increment function but to also start from the 3rd character rather than 1 so i could give it for example 10 characters and tell it to use a mask but start from 3 and not from 1 like it usually does :
hashcat -m 0 --increment hash1.txt -a 3 ?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a
it will do:
?a
?a?a
?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a
where i want it to be like this:
?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a
?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a?a
how can i achieve that?
RE: increment function: how can i start not from 1? - philsmd - 08-02-2020
all the necessary information is generally in the --help output:
Code:
--increment-min 3RE: increment function: how can i start not from 1? - rickopants - 08-02-2020
Thanks, i also had to use -i for it to work and was confused on that:
-i --increment-min 3
RE: increment function: how can i start not from 1? - philsmd - 08-02-2020
yeah, sure, both are needed. --increment just enables the increment feature, while --incement-min and --increment-max are optional command line parameters that allow to set the increment limits.